It sounds like your physical is good but that your IP's are
missconfigured. Did you check the IP info on both ends
(address/mask/gateway)?
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Michael J. Hammel wrote:
> I'm trying to wire my upstairs game room to my downstairs office with CAT5
> cable. The cable was already run when the house was built. But the
> connections were mucked up. So I'm trying to fix them.
>> My office has a gateway connected to a hub with 3 other computers
> (including a laptop) hooked directly into the hub. All that works fine. I
> connected the CAT5 cable in the wall to an CAT5 jack and moved the cable
> that was running to the laptop from the hub into the wall. Upstairs I used
> the same wiring combination on the jack (see below) and plugged another
> cable from that jack into my laptop.
>> I get a link light on the laptops connector (external pcmcia type) and on
> the hub. However, when I ping anyone on the downstairs net from the laptop
> upstairs (or reverse the direction) I get "Destination Host Unreachable".
> I think the wiring is correct. But I can't ping anyone on opposite floors.
>> I doubt the cable is over 100 meters in total length, so that shouldn't be
> the problem. None of the cabled used to plug the laptop into the wall or
> the wall into the hub is a crossover cable, so that's the not the problem.
>> Is the timeout for the ping expiring and making it look like the remote
> hosts can't be reached? Should any of the transmit/receive wires be
> crossed?
>> I used the T568B standards for the wiring and run in straight through. The
> wire from downstairs runs to a junction box where it is connected straight
> through to to the wire that runs to the wall in the game room.
>> Anyone got any suggestions? Some of the twists came out of the wires so I
> added them back in (I've heard that helps reduce noise). But that didn't
> help. The green/green-white pairs seem to provide link lights. The
> orange/orange-white pairs seem to provide data. Is that correct? The
> blue/blue-white and brown/brown-white pairs are unused as far as I know.
> Those latter sets are currently unconnected.
>>